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    Re: CEO Network Rail Archived Message

    Posted by Ken Waldron on August 13, 2020, 7:09 pm, in reply to "CEO Network Rail"

    "...has not apologised as such but has blamed the weather. "

    Well, there's some truth in that. It was the hairiest and wettest night I can remember and that particular stretch of line is quite precarious.

    That morning I looked out at the slope of the hill in front of my house to see a new scar where a very similar mudslide had moved many hundreds of tons of earth: luckily there's nothing at the bottom but a footpath.

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